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The Meaning Behind Intel Code Names?
Scozza asks: "In the name of science and decency, we have been trying to find the meanings
of the code names used by Intel for their processors. The only problem is that we can't
find links to a couple of names and would really appreciate it if Slashdot could help fill the blanks!"
Denial not just a river in Egypt (based on AMD's latest sales numbers).
The mountains from which many of the rivers used as names for Intel chips flow.
I hear the cascades are made mostly of silicon with some trace impuritys , just like Intel chips
With all these chips named after rivers, one has to question:
Is Intel going downstream?
Sadly, the latest sales figures seem to indicate so.
-Grump
Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.
Tejas is the Spanish name for Texas. Cascades are our little stretch of mountains here in the Pacific Northwest. Tualatin is also a suburb of Portland, just to the south, part of the Silicon Forest. Tulsa also happens to be a sizable city in Oklahoma.
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North northwest of Kirkland WA
Famous for being the namesake of the house brand at Costco and the home of Bill Gates.
If ever I saw a need for doing basic research before asking slashdot. I don't want to sound that snotty, but not knowing Cascades but having the Willamete and Kalamath rivers? As someone else pointed out the Cascades feed them; any casual glance at a map would have revealed that.
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"The term [Banias] is widely used to identify members of the traditional mercantile or business castes of India... "
Alderwood:
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Caswell County
Cascades?
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
That's what engineers used to stay up all night.
Katmicino was taken from a famous song by Cat Stevens. It's also a small town(the name in the song)just South of Katmandu. I visited Intel in the early 90's and they has this song playing in the elevators and lobby.
I sit beside the dark
Beneath the mire
Cold grey dusty day
The morning lake
Drinks up the sky
Katmocino I'll soon be seeing you
And your strange bewildering time
Will hold me down
Chop me some broken wood
We'll start a fire
White warm light the dawn
And help me see
Old satan's tree
Katmocino I'll soon be touching you
And your strange bewildering time
Will hold me down
Pass me my hat and coat
Lock up the cabin
Slow night treat me right
Until I go
Be nice to know
Katmocino I'll soon be seeing you
And your strange bewildering time
Will keep me home
After some quick Googling, Alderwood seems to be a lake in Wisconsin, and Caswell a lake in Mississippi.
"Each time you smile, it'll only last awhile. Life may be scary, but it's only temporary."
Banias - place in Syria where Jesus traveled with his disciples to examine their understanding of who he was.
Dothan - town in Alabama, USA or A place to the North of Shechem whither Jacob's sons went for pasture for the flocks
Grantsdale - town in Massachusetts, USA
Alderwood - dunno?
Caswell - dunno?
Tejas - eclectic ecofeminist Witchcraft community
Merced- river in California, USA
Klamath - river in Oregon, USA
Willamette - river in Oregon, USA
Coppermine - river in Canada
Katmai - Alaskan river
Deschutes - river in Oregon, USA
Deerfield - river in Massachusetts, USA
Foster - river in Saskatchewan, Canada
Northwood - city in Ohio, USA?
Tualatin - river in Oregon, USA
Gallatin - river in Montana, USA
McKinley - river in Alaska
Madison - river in Montana, USA
Potomac - river in Maryland, USA
Bulverde - city in Texas, USA
Tulsa - river in Arkansas, USA
Whitefield - industrial township on the edge of Bangalore, India
Yamhill - river in Oregon, USA
Tukwila - city in Washington, USA
Lindenhurst - town in New York , USA
Prescott - town in Wisconsin, USA
Springdale - city in Utah, USA
Jayhawk - a mythical bird?
Tonga - small Pacific nation
Tanner - trail in Arizona, USA?
Dixon - small town in Wyoming, USA
Cascades - dunno?
Katmocino - dunno?
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This isn't explanations of missing codenames, but rather ones you're missing since I see that you have the Pentium II (Klamath, Deschutes), but not the Celerons from the same era. So, here they are:
Covington: A city in Kentucky, Washington, Georgia (the US state, not the country), Virginia, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania.
Mendocino: A city in California
"I won't mod you down - I feel the need to call you a twit explicitly, rather than by implication."
It's simply a river in the Golan Heights.
Intel picks code names based on geographical locations near the place where the chip is designed. So the chips designed in Oregon have code names taken from places or things in Oregon. Likewise the Pentium-M chips designed in Israel have code names based on locations in Israel.
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it
The biblical codenames correspond to those chips coming from Intel's Engineering Facility in Israel.
To me, the overall meaning is that Intel is not good at marketing.
Geographical.
All Intel code names are names of some geographical place because geographical locations can not be trademarked. There is no inner meaning, that is by design.
Intel legal has to approve every code name before it is used, to make sure code names don't match up with someone's trademarked name. Because the code names are used in trade press to talk about upcoming products, they are subject to trademark law. Because Intel makes lots of money, they are subject to legal colonoscopy.
The official process to name something entails the following actions:
- Open up MapQuest
- Find some geographical names.
- Compile the list of names into an email to Intel legal.
- Pray Intel legal picks one of the names you suggested.
- Name the project whatever Intel legal tells you in the emailed reply. If you're really lucky it will be one you suggested.
Cheers!I think it deserves to be mentioned, for those who aren't from the West (especially the NW), many towns, rivers, and so on inherited their names from the Native American peoples who (used to) live there.
Tualatin
Willamette
Nehalem
Seattle
Klamath
Deschutes
Yamhill (Yamel)
Tukwila
Clackamas
Potomac (east coast but an Algonquin word nonetheless)
Nocona
I'm sure there are more...
I understand that the codenames are supposed to be geographical and local to the site from which the project ran, but wouldn't it be good if "Jayhawk" broke this rule and actually referred to the online cyberpunk/Shadowrun fiction of the same name? ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/frp/stories/jayhawk/
Software poker
I will see your BSD, with 2 SCOSource Licenses backed with and MS EULA.
ps I can't actually show you the SCOSource Licenese without you signing and NDA,but you just have to trust that I have them.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
... an egg at him. (this was during the last general elections I think, so it was more than a couple of years ago.) John Prescott evidently didn't like this and decided to punch the guy in the face. Regarding that guy not voting Labour: presumably, voters don't throw eggs at politicians whose party they support. (BTW, John Prescott is the target of most of the fat guy jokes in British political parody.)
I'm pretty sure this was mentioned on /. before. Banias is a river in northern Israel. Today the area is an Israeli national park with a nice waterfall and an easy hiking trail. Supposedly the Banias was named by the Greeks after their god Pan.
Tejas is the Spanish pronunciation of the Caddo Indian word "Tayshas" (Americanized spelling notwithstanding), which was their word for "friend" - the Caddo tribe was one of the major tribes in the Gulf Coast region during Spanish Imperialism, and were generally on good terms with the Spaniards.
I'm not sure about the rest, but Northwood is definitely a pornographic reference to Peter North.
This is unfortunate, because I don't think Intel were looking for "irritating, two-faced dinosaur" when selecting a name to represent their new product.
Still, for UK readers, it made for some interesting headlines. Courtesy of The Register:
"Intel finally launches Prescott" - sadly, this did not involve the use of a hefty catapult or trebuchet.
"Prescott pipeline longer than Northwood's" - could have been straight out of a Carry-On film.
"775-pin Prescott insides exposed on web" - was not an autopsy report.
"Prescott to clock higher at launch than anticipated" - was not advance notice about the guy attempting a new speed stunt record in one of his many Jaguars; and
"Intel outs Prescott, demos 4GHz desktop" - was certainly not an insight into the Deputy PM's sexuality that the tabloids were craving for.
"Prestonia" (current Xeon CPU) is missing from the list -- is that a street in Portland as well? Google only finds a town in Kentucky.
Whenever I hear the word 'Innovation', I reach for my pistol.
Because you can't trademark them. It's that simple.
The Raven
I'm rather disappointed in many of the responses I've seen here. It seems like most people just googled answers, rather than actually knowing. For example, an earlier post said:
Tualain is also a burb of Portland
While this is true, I live in Hillsboro along with several thousand other Intel-ites, and Hillsboro is the tualatin valley, which was named after that tualatin river.
Interestingly enough, as I was taught in elementary school, tualatin is a Native American word meaning lazy or slow moving, as the tualatin river doesn't go very fast. I wonder if Intel thought about this when trying to come up with the name.
>> Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems
Yeah, yeah. But when detention is over and that pretty girl goes home, you're gonna be sorry you've got blisters all over your hand.
Grant's Dale is the one pictured on the right
I have a friend who worked for Intel. At one point the commandment came from on high that all project names must be US places.
. ht ml
So their next project name proposal:
Wanker's Corner [it's in Oregon]
Here's some more suggestions for Intel:
http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Pointless/Cities
I work at Intel and the names basically translate to "Is this thing supposed to get so hot?"
Some of them mean "hey, watch the lights dim when I open MSWord!"
Another means "This one is really really big, and heavy too."
There ya go - mystery solved!
Where's Robin Hood? We could kinda really use him now.
I haven't figured out their code naming system yet, but I'm sure there's some numeralogical way to add them up to 666.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
Gee, I haven't been back to Austin for a few years, but that really does describe it pretty well....
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick
And he told me they were selected by the primary teams of the local Intel office, and that they usually had geographic names. Banias was named by a team in the Intel Israel office, Barton was named by a team in the Intel Austin office, etc.
They are basing the new modeling numbers like how BMW names their cars. So for example the 300s would be the budget ones, the 500s would be the midrange, and the 700s woulld be the highend chips.